Over the course of the mid-to-late 20th century, notions of social justice went very, very wrong.

‘Who else has written so keenly and movingly about hope, evil, endurance, pain, greed, transcendence, all the things that make us human?’

Morrison’s work conveyed the pain, sacrifice and trauma that exemplifies so much of the African-American experience.

A detective story is not what we have come to expect from Russo, who generally operates at the same, easy-going speed as his male protagonists.

This Will Shakespeare is an insecure if well intentioned striver.

Zahra Hankir has compiled a collection of gripping and illuminating essays by Arab women reporters who have worked in the Middle East and North Africa. Hankir’s goal was to bring attention to “underreported tales and the women who tell them.”